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The restaurant's first location on 813 Washington Street was famous for being a venerable mainstay in the local Chinatown area, having been in the same location since 1912. Sam Wo gained notoriety in the 1960’s for being the employer of Edsel Ford Fung , who was known locally as the "world's rudest waiter".
[10] This last house had south walls of glass with extended eaves designed to admit sun through the glass in winter and shade it in summer [11] – an idea Wright incorporated into the Jacobs' second house four years later. Jacobs' first house from the backyard. In 1936 Herbert Jacobs, a young Madison newspaperman, and his wife Katherine ...
The Golden Dragon massacre [1] was a gang-related mass shooting that took place on September 4, 1977, inside the Golden Dragon Restaurant at 822 Washington Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, United States.
Johnny Kan (1906–1972) was a Chinese American restaurateur in Chinatown, San Francisco, ca 1950–1970.He was the owner of Johnny Kan's restaurant, which opened in 1953, and published a book on Cantonese cuisine, Eight Immortal Flavors, which was praised by Craig Claiborne and James Beard. [1]
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Housing protesters at San Francisco City Hall, 1977 Demonstrators at the International Hotel in San Francisco, 1977. From 1968–77, the residents were gradually evicted from the International Hotel. The final residents were evicted in 1977, when 400 riot police led an eviction raid on August 4 at 3:00 am. [12]
The San Francisco Michelin Guide was the second North American city chosen to have its own Michelin Guide. Unlike the other U.S. guides which focus mainly in the city proper, the San Francisco guide includes all the major cities in the Bay Area : San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Berkeley, as well as Wine Country, which includes Napa and ...
No, not the one in San Francisco, the one in Fresno. Just west of Chukchansi Park and the railroad tracks sits downtown’s less well known sister, Chinatown, a neighborhood born in the 1870s.